What works for stubborn aches, pains, and injuries? What doesn’t? Why? PainScience.com reviews your treatment options and the nature of the beast: hundreds of self-help articles, plus several big tutorials about common musculoskeletal pain problems, routinely updated, and readable enough for anyone but heavily referenced for professionals. (There’s also a huge pain science bibliography.) I serve up the science of pain with some sass — I try to have fun taking this subject seriously. ~ Paul Ingraham, publisher

Muscle fever — such a wonderfully descriptive term — is that distinctive muscle pain that nearly everyone experiences after intense or unfamiliar exercise, often peaking as long as a day or two later. How does it work and can anything help?

Muscle fever — such a wonderfully descriptive term — is that distinctive muscle pain that nearly everyone experiences after intense or unfamiliar exercise, often peaking as long as a day or two later. How does it work and can anything help?

My stretching article has been popular for more than a decade now, and it’s one of the best examples of what this website is all about: thorough, sassy critical analysis, and tipping over sacred cows with facts n stuff.

My stretching article has been popular for more than a decade now, and it’s one of the best examples of what this website is all about: thorough, sassy critical analysis, and tipping over sacred cows with facts n stuff.